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by vonklaus 11y ago
it has a heavy security component which is great one of the women who was a key hire built one or 2 encrypted communication companies. maybe they scaled back on marketing, but it is inherently security, privacy focused with the third value
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by vonklaus 11y ago
ill say this again. Brave is the best concept executed in the worst way. i tweeted until eich actually responded just hoping they would take a dif tact. a browser is almost 100% a commodity wrapped around a search engine. they cant be decou
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by vonklaus 11y ago
why is this space so active? and why now? there are a massive amount of bot & chatbot conpanies and it is a fairly recent trend. Are we on the cusp of beating the turing test? the space is exploding
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Are you familiar with Stripe Atlas? It was built for this usecase, and allows non-US companies to: - Get US Bank Account at SVB - Incorporate as Delaware C corp - Accept Payments immeadiately using stripe - have access to PWC consultants ab
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I had a discussion on here about this a while back. The model translates, as it turns out, super super well. The failure is understanding the Uber model. I see uber differently as a company long term. However, this is my attempt at what the
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Resonates. I didn't spend the extra $5 to get a USB 3.0 Flash Drive. Currently the read process for the image backup looks like it will take 4 hours to create write media, 2 to actually restore. Good lesson above about te restore being
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I liked Namecheap. I would double check some of the clauses in their TOS... I am leaning toward rackspace, thanks for the input.
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Ask HN: What Domain Registrar has the best TOS/provides best service & privacy?
1 points by vonklaus 11y ago|3 comments
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Peter Theil regularly uses lack of aerospace innovation as a yardstick for slowing progress in Technology all the time[0]. He'd pretty much have to at least take the meeting. [0] One example is the end of the future oped he wrote. h
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I am still negotiating. We are all in dif places. Currently I am hoping for: Until next round: 650 cash a week. 1500 allocation for new macbook. Deferred compensation: Basically a lump sum backpay of the difference of the 650(pay from above
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I wonder if petrr theil is an investor. He uses the deprecation of the concord as an example our socoety is slowing down technologically (literally & figuratively). I have to imagine demand for international biz class flights have gone
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Edit: Maybe it is thread based selection bias, but I have been consistently stating this and more developed versions of this threat model and consistently get downed. If anyone sees this and votes on my above comment (either direction) I wo
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I am not making the claim that lack of evidence is proof, but there really isn't a control group for "unbiased results". - people see different results. - countries see different results - all search engines use page rank and
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I am actually curious what you think the problem is as well. I have been modeling possible fixes to the general issues with privacy, consolidation and restricted freedom to use the internet/communications. There are a lot of problems w
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by vonklaus 11y ago
To me, a lot of the issues we are facing seem to be scaling the governmental framework out to far while simultaneously creating a society that promotes individualism. Consider: > Christians, Muslims, Athiests, Mormons, Jews, etc are boun
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I have never heard of palemoon before but I agree with these points but not the conclusion. Probably to some extent that prescription makes sense however it can never be successful. Search can never be decoupled from the browser. It just ca
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by vonklaus 11y ago
No. If you are not willing to do anything significant about it, then at least push people not to trade simplicity and ease-of-use with blockchain short term to give the technoloigy a chance to diverge into numerous protocols and subsystems.
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Not me, I jumped right to WWII/Cold War. While the obvious extension of the technology would be aqueous mobility because: > Autonomy is a lot less complex in high friction environment with restricted pull of gravity and speed. >
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by vonklaus 11y ago
> encouraging to see Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Comcast For all intents and purposes this is most of the English speaking internet. If you swap Yahoo for Verizon and Apple you'd be pretty close. So, yeah encouraging to get this st
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by vonklaus 11y ago
If possible to ethically disclose this, what was the craziest thing you think could have worked, amd the outright craziest.
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I was skeptical. Type "router firmware" into google news. Many articles about firmware lockdown
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I came here to say this was alarmist bullshit, but I wanted to read the article first. I was very wrong. Locking router firmware down is maliscious & the coup de grâce to an opened internet. Today the http status code 451 was oficiall
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Im having this conversation in 5 minutes. This was very helpful.
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I actually value having a cofounder title a lot. I am not sure how big of an ask that is, but having the title and recommendations from both the other founders would give me a better chance of raising for my own inc in 6 months, so I would
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by vonklaus 11y ago
> Did their Ivy league and technical, financial, and business orientation let them raise enough money to pay you a market salary? No? Then their pedigree is worth precisely what yours is. I wouldn't have thought about it this way, b
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Offer was 2.5% with 1 year retroactive cliff (so dated 3 months ago) and a 4 year vesting schedule
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Makes sense, I understand now, and that seems pretty reasonable. Thanks.
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Thanks. It means a lot coming from somebody who is basically a hiring expert. It is just super weird valuing yourself. I know I am really good at communicating, thiunking about biz dev and sales and execution. However, I am ostensibly just
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Not 100% sure what you mean. I really want a normal salary now, but they don't have the cash. Post-accelerator I would like/expect a real salary. I don't know if 1% is a lot of equity or not especially because of how dilution
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Ask HN: How to negotiate equity/compensation as first hire?
6 points by vonklaus 11y ago|24 comments

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